"The daily official tally gives a very limited picture of the impact of the virus - if we take into account reporting delays and deaths outside hospital, we probably passed 20,000 deaths attributed to Covid-19 a week ago," says Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter of the University of Cambridge. Macron 'shame' at police beating of black man, Fury at photos of Maradona's body in funeral home. Stricter measures had just been introduced to tackle the virus. You mourn the deaths of loved ones on social media, Zoom and Skype rather than at wakes. The data published this week suggests around one in 400 people is currently infected. What could be more terrifying than that? Although clearly some people, depending on their jobs, are at higher risk than others. And if you were to attempt to visualise them, they would not look like a randomly selected cross-section of the population, either. But compared with most conflicts and natural disasters, the impact is far more dispersed and hidden. 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Contact Details Statistical Laboratory Centre for Mathematical Sciences Wilberforce Road Cambridge CB3 0WB, Email: D.Spiegelhalter[at]statslab.cam.ac.uk Telephone: +44 1223 337945 Fax: +44 1223 337956 Tweets by d_spiegel: Job From October 2016 I have been Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence … © 2020 BBC. As for children, the risk of dying from other things - cancer and accidents are the biggest cause of fatalities - is greater than their chance of dying if they are infected with coronavirus. If you live on the Western Isles of Scotland, where the rate of infections has been dramatically lower, the same sensory cues won't be there for you, though you may notice the lack of vapour trails. But more than half of the coronavirus deaths announced daily have been reported since Easter, so by now the true picture is likely to be far higher. Currently the government is asking 2.5 million people to completely isolate themselves. It is unsurprising, therefore, that many people are fearful of going out, returning life to normal or even letting children go back to school. These include all the over-70s and people with health conditions ranging from diabetes to heart conditions. How can we grasp the scale of this loss? "I don't want my mum being another statistic," Ms Doherty told BBC Radio Ulster. Iran's foreign minister has condemned the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh "as an act of state terror". Data suggest men may be affected more than women, and that there has been a disproportionately large impact on people from ethnic minority backgrounds. So what should we do? So as restrictions ease, society and individuals themselves are going to have to make decisions based on balancing competing sets of risks. People want to be safe. Unlike residents of a town or spectators at a sporting ground, the lives lost haven't been concentrated in one particular location. 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But relevant too are the illnesses that kill equivalent numbers each year with minimal attention. The chances of coming into close contact with one of those individuals - certainly as we are practising social distancing even when out and about - is considered to be pretty slim. Weekly quiz: What went on with the Pope's social media? • This article was amended on 1 & 8 May 2020. Each time a Covid-19 statistic is recorded, how many other people are affected besides? You could compare 20,000 with other death tolls. It's the capacity of the Liberty Stadium in Swansea or Fratton Park in Portsmouth. What is remarkable about coronavirus is that if we are infected our chances of dying seems to mirror our chance of dying anyway over the next year, certainly once we pass the age of 20. Finding out more about these is going to be crucial as we move forward. "But it's also important to remember that, although Covid-19 is a far more serious illness than seasonal flu, in each of the winters of 2014-5 and 2017-18 there were over 26,000 deaths associated with flu, which did not receive much attention.". Reality Check: Who gets social care and who pays for it? People over 70 are at higher risk. When you look up at the clear spring skies, all but empty of the usual passenger aircraft, your view of the air ambulances carrying patients to hospitals will be unimpeded. But the most glaring gap in our understanding of the pandemic is the emotional impact of its spread. Coronavirus has been described as an invisible killer. "Twenty thousand deaths represents a huge amount of illness, human pain and personal loss," says Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter. ", .css-po6dm6-ItalicText{font-style:italic;}By Robert Cuffe, BBC News head of statistics. That compares to around 50 killed in road accidents every year. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. "There are also many thousands of extra deaths in the community that have not been attributed to Covid-19, either through caution in putting it on the death certificate, or reluctance to send people to hospital.". So coronavirus is, in effect, taking any frailties and amplifying them. In a world where Covid-19 remains present in the community it's about how we reduce that risk, just as we do with other kinds of daily dangers, like driving and cycling.". And even though a ceiling of 20,000 fatalities was considered a hopeful scenario, it was only ever so in the most the limited sense. Is it possible to calculate, let alone envisage, the scale of tragedy visited on loved ones, neighbours and friends? Statistician Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter, an expert in risk from Cambridge University and government adviser, says it has, in effect, become a game of "risk management" - and because of that we need to get a handle on the magnitude of risk we face. Video'This is War': Polandâs battle for abortion. • David Spiegelhalter is a statistician and professor of the public understanding of risk. The hope is that level of infection will reduce even further in time if the government's test, track and trace programme keeps the virus suppressed.
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